Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1821 – 1896
Who was Philipp Ludwig von Seidel?
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel was a German mathematician. His mother was Julie Reinhold and his father was Justus Christian Felix Seidel.
Lakatos credits von Seidel with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence, while analyzing an incorrect proof of Cauchy's.
In 1857, von Seidel decomposed the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations. They are now commonly referred to as the five Seidel Aberrations.
The lunar crater Seidel is named after him.
The Gauss–Seidel method is a useful numerical iterative method for solving linear systems.
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- Born
- Oct 23, 1821
Zweibrücken - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 13, 1896
Munich
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on July 23, 2013
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